Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes

The great community of mankind had been subdivided into ten thousand communities, each organized for the ruin of the other.

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Necessity, thou mother of the world!

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Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present; the words which express what they understand not; the trumpets which sing to battle, and feel not what they inspire; the influence which is moved not, but moves. Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.

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a single word even may be a spark of inextinguishable thought

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When you can discover where the fresh colors of the faded flower abide, or the music of the broken lyre, seek life among the dead. Such are the anxious and fearful contemplations of the common observer, though the popular religion often prevents him from confessing them even to himself.

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A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.

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It is among men of genius and science that atheism alone is found.

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That sweet sleep which medicines all pain.

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I consider poetry very subordinate to moral and political science.

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The moon of Mahomet Arose, and it shall set; While, blazoned as on heaven's immortal noon, The cross leads generations on.

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You ought to love all mankind; nay, every individual of mankind. You ought not to love the individuals of your domestic circles less, but to love those who exist beyond it more.

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I have made my bed In charnels and on coffins, where black death Keeps record of the trophies won

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The encomium of one incapable of flattery is indeed flattering.

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The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.

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I never was attached to that great sect, Whose doctrine is that each one should select Out of the crowd a mistress or a friend, And all the rest, though fair and wise, commend, To cold oblivion.

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In the golden lightning Of the sunken sun O'er which clouds are brightening, Thou dost float and run Like an unbodied joy whose race is just begun.

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Reviewers, with some rare exceptions, are a most stupid and malignant race. As a bankrupt thief turns thief-taker in despair, so an unsuccessful author turns critic.

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It is a modest creed, and yet Pleasant if one considers it, To own that death itself must be, Like all the rest, a mockery.

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I silently laugh at my own cenotaph, And out of the caverns of rain, Like a child from the womb, like a ghost from the tomb, I arise and unbuild it again.

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He gave man speech, and speech created thought, Which is the measure of the universe.

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